It's common knowledge that if you're a parent of a young child, you don't leave important things lying around for them to get their hands on. Or at least you'd think it was. But the parents of a two-year-old boy from Utah had to learn this lesson the hard way after an envelope of cash containing $1060 (about £800) they'd been saving went missing. And after turning the house upside down looking for the money, they discovered their son Leo was the cause of its disappearance. Jackie and Ben Belnap had been eagerly saving up to treat themselves to season tickets to watch the University of Utah's football team. Over time they'd managed to scrape together over $1000, but when the time came to pay for the tickets - the money had vanished. The couple searched high and low for the envelope, worrying it may have gone out with the rubbish. But Jackie eventually found it somewhere else. It turned out, much to their horror, that their toddler had put the money through the shredder.
Ben shared a post about the situation on Twitter. He said: "So I and my wife had been saving up to pay for our Utah Football tickets in cash. We pulled our money out yesterday to pay my mom for the season... Well, we couldn’t find the envelope until my wife checked the shredder. Yup. 2 years old shredded $1,060."The tweet has gone viral, with over 400 shares and 1,600 likes. His wife, Jackie said"Leo helps me shred junk mail and just things with our name on it, or important documents we want to get rid of."